Interview 30880 – Caption Index: 345
What issues caused you the most concern during your zoo career, and how do you see the future regarding those concerns?… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your zoo career, and how do you see the future regarding those concerns?… Read More
Okay? That was their balanced diet. And so, but that was public behavior too back then. Like I said, throwing marshmallows. I can remember I was a kid 60 years ago, you know, going to the zoo and going to the duck pond and taking along our old cereal Cheerios… Read More
You know, and they wanna, they, and today’s generations, they want experiences. You know, they, they want to discover things, you know, and that’s where historically, what I call most zoos are walking gaw zoos where you walk and you stop and you gawk at the animal for 30 seconds. Read More
Visitor attitudes have changed a lot over the years. Absolutely. They have. And they haven’t, you know, people come to a zoo or an aquarium 80% of the time as a family, as a family thing to do together, recreational time together. And a lot of those families want the… Read More
So they need to learn how to listen. They need to know how to understand people. They need, how to cooperate with people. They know how to schedule people, how to figure out finances, how to understand the animal world. It’s complex. So that curriculum would probably be at least… Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the, the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
This year it’s, you know, and, and keep building that. And so you actually get, get a certificate after several years of, of, you know, for curatorial school. And you mentioned obviously a zoo is about the visitors that come. Read More
Smart question again, mark. I think everything from knowing what animal resources are out there, you know, regarding the most current SSPs and things such as that, and Stu books and all, what the, where those resources are and how to tap them, and people that you would recommend who… Read More
So in your curator training school, what would you be focusing on?… Read More
And quite often it’s hard to explain to somebody who’s interviewing for the job, what they’re gonna be doing, and once they’re in the trenches. So I, I think the zoo world should aggressively work on training middle management much, much more. Because I, I don’t, I don’t think there’s… Read More
A municipal zoo budget is established by the mayor and the city council, and the zoo director gets their funds, and they may get one thing that says zoo, and then the director breaks it out. Or in the private world, it’s, it’s done completely different. Established by a private… Read More
They’re nothing alike. Okay?… Read More
You don’t get any more. We need more that. So there, you’re in the middle, you’re in no one position. So in every curator at every institution, the responsibilities are different. Some of them never do anything with animals. All they do is manage personnel, manage resources, manage schedules, you… Read More
To be very honest with you, there’s not a curator training school that I’m aware of. Okay. Who to make sure that they understand how a budget works. Especially, you know, a private zoo budget and a municipal zoo budget. Read More
How many good numbers people do you know, are really great animal care people?… Read More
Again, tho those talents are kind of diametrically opposed. So trying to find somebody who can manage a budget, manage Chanel, manage a collection, being able also be able to assist in the daily care of the collection. Good. What a spectrum of talent. Okay. And so many of those… Read More
It’s not their talent, it’s not their gift. Okay?… Read More
How many people, how many good animal people, you know, are really good financial management people?… Read More
How to be a budgeter. Okay?… Read More
And then that poor curator in the middle. Okay?… Read More